Kingston Arts
Magnify: Artist-in-Residence
27 January - 27 April 2025
Background:
On 27 April I undertook a three-month Magnify: Artist-in-Residence with Kingston Arts. When I applied for the residency some ten months earlier, my proposal envisioned site-responsive exploration of the interdisciplinary crossovers of my arts practice (at the time, being painting, poetry and songwriting, with some foundational experience in ceramics), primarily through a relational lens. My interest in the relational experience of art-making and sharing stems from my lived experiences of trauma, and of healing made possible within community.
When I arrived to Kingston Arts, I had concluded my first solo exhibition, Sentient Worlds, with Incinerator Gallery (Offsite Exhibitions) and taken interest in the work of artists such as Genevieve Asse, Agnes Martin, Etel Adnan, Louise Nevelson
readings on materiality,
Leporellos - Etel Adnan; Genevieve Asse and Pierre Lecuire
My first six weeks were spent heavily engaged in research about these artists, their methods, critique and corresponding philosophies alongside my autobiographical writing practice (poetry and prose), which dealt with themes of intimacy and isolation. I documented these relationships between my practice and research in journal entries, which continued to feed into writing, further research — and so the process went.
One of the questions I sought to answer was: How do I translate my research themes (distance and closeness) into my visual arts method (painting and ceramics) in a way that can be reasonably understood by the viewer?
Painting
through tested methods in my visual arts practice (painting and ceramics)
closeness and distance
autobiographical writings
reflecting on how
peripheral
Turning points:
Shoulder
Challenges:
Limitations:
Outcomes:
14 February 2025
Tired today. Got here around midday. Now 5, leaving soon. Been writing, organising writing. Not enough time/stamina to get into materials. I can’t make it in over the weekend and I’m sad about it. This is my second day this week, but I need consecutive days, otherwise it’s too much like – insert simile here.
I’m tired. I put Lenore Tawney’s name into Google Maps instead of my home address, and inadvertently left the ‘a’ off address writing this.
16 February 2025
Want to be with clay – finding it hard to write. Very quiet day, no talking other than to cats. I can’t remember the last time I spent a full day at home without having to work. I have spent it gluing old works on paper into leporellos.
16 February 2025
Want to be with clay – finding it hard to write. Very quiet day, no talking other than to cats. I can’t remember the last time I spent a full day at home without having to work. I have spent it gluing old works on paper into leporellos.